Sweater



April 21, 1931. A. M. LOWENTHAL SWEATER Filed Dec.

INVENTOR fir'flzur IZ LowenihaL BY 1 M ATTORNEY 'Patented Apr. 21, 1931UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ARTHUR M. LOWENTHAL, .OF ROCHESTER,NEW'YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MAX LOWENTHAL & SONS, A COPARTNERSHIP CONSISTINGOF HARRY M. LOWENTHAL, EUGENE M..

LOWENTHAL, AND ARTHUR M. LOWENTHAL SWEATER Application filed December14,1927. Seria1No. 240,0 29.

The present invention relates to sweaters and an object thereof is toprovide a knitted sweater which may be used with an open neck and aclosed neck and which will have a neat appearance when used either way.Another objectof the invention is to provide a sweater vided withportions extending along the shoulder seam to and stitched to thesleeves of the sweater.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts andcombinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described: thenovelfeatures being pointed out in theappended claims. V

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the sweater with the lapels in open positions;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary front view showing one of the lapels open andthe other closed;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary front view showing the two lapels closed;

Fig. 4 is a rear View of the sweater;

Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the two knitted lapels and the knittedback strip removed from the sweater; and

Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic view showing the manner in which the lapels areformed from a single strip of knitting with a minimum of wastage.

of the upper portion Referring to the illustrated embodiment of theinvention the body of the sweater com prises a front 1, and a back 2formed, in this instance, by tubular knitting of any desired a stitchand having sleeves 3 stitchedthereto at 4. e

In an application filed by me on December 14, 1927, Serial No. 240,028,I have disclosed and claimed a strip 5 formed of a separately knittedstrip having selvaged side edges with one side edge 6 stitched to theback portion 2 of the garment and its ends stitched at 7 a to thesleeves 3, the upper edge of this strip being situated at the shoulderseam 7 of the garment. It is preferred to use this back piece with thepresent invention, although the invention is not limited to such use.

The front of the body of the sweater has a neck recess formed, in thisinstance, by cutting away two downwardly converging edges 8whichintersect the vertical walls 9 of a notch at the center of the neckrecess, the upper portion of the front of the bodyl being cut, onhorizontal lines 10 leading from the upper ends of the converging walls8 to the shoulder seam and spaced from the shoulder seam. To the edgesof the'neck recess the lapels are secured. i

The lapels are of novel ting these lapels consists in the making otazigzag knltted strip such as shown in Fig.6. Th1s strip is formed byproviding longitudinal rows 11 of knitting arranged end to end. Themethod of and at angles to each other. forming these longitudinal rowsat angles to each other is well known toa skilled knitter, and may beaccomplished by the rackingof the knitting machine. For instance, therows 11 may be either full or half cardigan racked vwhile the portion 12between them will be black lines, Fig. 6 so as .to provide the pluralityoflapels, with thesmall pieces 13 as waste. This produces a plurality oflapels each having two angularly arranged portions, each portion havinglongitudinal rows of construction and are, preferably knitted. A novelmethod of knitstitches, at an angle to the other end of like i racking,say full cardigan racking, separated at712 byla different type ofracking, say half cardigan racking, each lapel being wider at the angle,between'the two sets/of rows of knitting., Each lapel also has aselvaged free edge extending from its point or corner. I The lower endsof each lapel are stitched to the bottor'n'of the lower centralnotchedportion of the neck recess and each are also stitched along one side tothe vertical edge 9 of the central notched portion of the neck recess.The edge'of the wide portion ofthe lapel is stitched to one of theconverging sides 8 0f the neck recess while the lower horizontal edge ofthe horizontal portion of each lapel is stitched at 15 to the upper edgeof the ody portion. The upper horizontal edge of the horizontal portionhas a portion thereof stitched to the back strip 5 so as to form, withthe back piece 5, the shoulder seam 7, while the end of the horizontalpor- :tion ofthe lapel is stitched at 14 to a sleeve 3.

It will thus be seen that the lapels will have their vertical portionsarranged :one overlapping the other when the garment is closed as shownin Fig. 3, and yet the lapels may be thrown back to provide an opengarment as shown in Fig. 1. The vertica-l'edge .of each lapel isselvaged as is also the hori- 'zontal ed so that the selvage edges onthe laPels an the selvage edge on the back strip 5 meet at the shoulderseam, thus preventing unravelling at this point. Furthermore the lapels,b extending to the sleeve seams are material y strengthened at theirupper-edges and strains or pulls on the lapels are transmitted to thesleeve seams instead of being imparted to the free stretching body ofthe sweater. Each lapel may be provided with a button hole 17 so thatbuttons 16 may be used for holding the lapels in open position. A button18 on the undermost lapel may be employed for fitting in the button hole17 onthe outermost lapel to make a closed garmeat. It will be understoodthat the invention is not limited to extending the lapels to thesleeves.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A sweater comprising a body having a front formed with a neck recess,sleeves stitched to said body, and two one-piece sections stitched tothe walls of the neck recess, and each including a lapel and a portionstitched at the shoulder seam, and extending to andstitched to thesleeves.

2. A sweater comprising a knitted body having its front formed with aneck recess rovided with downwardly converging side edges, and twoone-piece knitted lapels each stitched .to a downwardly converging sideedge of the neck recess and having two rows of continuous knittingextending from the pointof the lapel at angles to each other.

3. A sweater comprising a knitted body having its front formed with aneck recess, and two one-piece knitted lapels each stitched to an edgeof said recess and having two rows of continuous knitting extending fromthe point of the lapel at angles to each other.

4. A sweater comprising a knitted body, sleeves stitched to said body,the front of the body having the neck recess extending laterally to thesleeves, and two one-piece lapels each stitched to an edge of the recessand having portions extending to and stitched to the sleeve and alsosecured to the back at the shoulder seam.

shoulder seam and extendin Thetween said front and the shoulder seamextending to the sleeves, and two one-piece sections stitchedto the neckrecess and each including alapel and a portion connecting the front ofthe body with the back at the to and stitched to the sleeves, saidsections ein formed of knitted material with selvage e' ges extendingwhen the lapels are in closed positions -vertically downward from thelapel point-and horizontally outward from "the point, .the latterselvaged forming part of the shoulder seam.

ARTHUR M. LOWENTHAL.

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